Well, hello, hello, guys, you're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, secrets of a plastic surgeon, andgeon and it's time for a five minute Friday and let's make

it a good one. It's going to be all about niacinamide. This is one of the most popular and trending ingredients

right now in my practice and in skincare overall. Every year a new product comes into popularity. We've all heard about

halaronic acid. This is the year of niacinamide. And I love topical niacinamide for your skin.

It reduces the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and pores. It visibly diminishes redness,

blotchyness, and spots and shininess. It's going to make

your skin cells turn over faster, which is going to give you glowy freshness. So what are the top

five reasons that you need to use niacinamide in your skin care? Let's go over that. Number one, it reduces inflammation. So it plays a key role

in preventing redness that comes along with certain conditions like acne, eczema, rosacea, and more.

Number two, it does barrier repair. It supports your body's ability to make ceramides. Those are the nice, beautiful oils and kind of like the glue that holds together your skin cells, preventing them from breaking open, losing water and having transepidromal water loss through the skin. This allows your skin to repair and have good barrier function and moisturization.

So you gotta love that, especially as we go into wintertime.

Number three, niacinamide is an antioxidant, a very high potency antioxidant,

so it helps neutralize free radicals and protect skin against the damaging effects of the sun,

blue light, pollution, UV, everything

that we expose our faces to. Number four, if you're an acne sufferer, you need to bring

niacinamide into your regimen. It has great anti-inflammatory properties that soothes

irritated, breaking out skin so soothing

and comforting it's a great fit to go along with your acne products it also has the

ability to lower your sebum excretion sebum control or oil control is so important

when you have acne because it can reduce your shininess

and actually make your pores appear smaller with niacinamide.

Number five, it enhances barrier function by increases the protein production of your skin cells.

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